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The Cocotron

55 points| rayascott | 8 years ago |cocotron.org | reply

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[+] badsectoracula|8 years ago|reply
Judging from GitHub, it looks kinda dead [1]. GNUstep for Windows [2] might be a better choice (and more likely to be up to date and complete since it is still in active development) to port something from macOS. Although you may need to have some GNUstep libraries on the system to run the application (or install them alongside your application). In traditional GNUstep fashion, it is unclear from their site what exactly is needed and why and gives the impression that you need to install the entire GNUstep just to run a simple application.

[1] https://github.com/cjwl/cocotron [2] http://www.gnustep.org/windows/installer.html

[+] bitshiffed|8 years ago|reply
Is there something new going on with Cocotron? Seems like it was all but abandoned years ago.
[+] deusum|8 years ago|reply
The Cocotron (2006) ...might be a better title.
[+] adamnemecek|8 years ago|reply
The project is very much moribund but I've used it to see how some things might be implemented.
[+] waynecochran|8 years ago|reply
What is the formula that HN uses that this reaches the front page?
[+] grzm|8 years ago|reply
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